Thursday, February 23, 2012

Are you tired of copying and editing a lot of Team Queries for every new iteration ? Are you willing to try and test a prerelease version of a new tool ?

Iteration Manager Visual Studio Add-InI've started transforming a little tool I’ve been using to ease the bourdon of managing iterations in TFS to a full blown Visual Studio Add-In to handle Iteration management. My goal is to release it on the Visual Studio Gallery, during this spring. But before I release it would be good to have it thoroughly tested  That’s why I’m making an open invitation for everyone who would be interested in testing this new Visual Studio Add-In.

Intended feature set This is the main features I’m intending to implement before official released on Visual Studio Gallery:

A Visual Studio Add-In using the current team explorer connection

Automatically configure settings based on process template

Create new Iteration, optional configurable task:

Create “Sprint” work item and set sprint dates

Create a new team query Iteration folder based on template

Change current iteration

Reconfigure team queries in current Iteration team query folder

On the backlog for future releases:

Vs11 version

“Repair” team queries after Rename of iteration (and areas)

Recreate all iteration folders based on template

Integration with Team Portals

Integration with Reporting Services

Current state At this moment I have a working Visual Studio Add-In integration with team explorer, offering a simply UI to create a new Iteration and create a team query folder by copying an existing folder and replacing iteration filters in the queries. The next action is to start writing the configuration and auto detection parts.

Interested – Get in touchIf you are interested in testing the prerelease version of Iteration Manager Visual Studio Add-In please drop a line on twitter (mattiasskold) or contact me on IM,you can also dropp a file with your contact information on SkyDrive and Il will get back to you.